Friday

 

Our designer liked this shelf for the shower. Now we need to decide on the size, either 10 inches or 19 inches. We think 10 inches is too small for shampoo, conditioner, soap, and razors. And 19 inches seems huge. They are both 5.2 inches deep. (They look smaller in the picture.) Maybe we need two 10 inch shelves?

Here's one possible placement for the 19 inch shelf, above and to the right of the center control. The shelf would be close to the glass wall.

Or place it above the center control. But, will goop drip down on the chrome control?

Or below the center control. Will that seem odd, placed this low? Sticking out 5 inches? And will the shower melt the soap?

It can't go to the left because that's where the hand shower wand will go. The other three walls are either decorative glass tile or clear glass. Perhaps two 10 inch shelves stacked on top of each other, off to the right side of the center control? One can be for soap and razors and the other for shampoo and conditioner. We've asked our designer for her suggestion. The other challenge is to mount them so that we do not pierce our new pipes, which will be hidden once the wall board and tile goes up. Hence, all of the pictures.

Our living room ceiling fan's highest speed doesn't work, only the medium and low speeds. We didn't realize it until recently. We don't think it ever worked. The same fan (only smaller) in the eat-in kitchen clearly has three speeds. By comparison, the living room has only two that work. The electricians looked at it while they were here for the bathroom work and pronounced it a fan problem, not an electrical one. So I did some research and determined that it's probably the capacitor. I called Minka-Aire and was able to confirm that it was the responsible part and get a capacitor replacement shipped under warranty. They included instructions for replacement.

The current switches for the primary bedroom include the fan on/off, speed at the top and the switch for the light on the fan on the bottom left. The bottom right switch controls the bottom outlets beside where the bed goes for bedside lamps, just recently discovered. Our living room switches used to resemble the ones above that are in the bedroom. It looks messy.

Now, they look like this. Fan on/off, speed, and light with dimmer all in one switch. We're going to have the bedroom configured to look like this one. Much simpler. But it involves bringing a wire down and patching the drywall. Since we're having drywall repair in the bedroom, it seems an easy thing to include in our project.

We did not have any workers today, but we had time to exercise, research, read, and cook.

Meanwhile, the destruction from Hurricane Helene becomes more and more apparent as we navigate our way around. First, there were piles of furniture, beds, carpet, clothing, and wood flooring, then food. After a few more days, there were piles of drywall, kitchen cabinets, bathroom cabinets, fixtures. Then appliances. It's an almost complete gutting of so many houses. Now that it has rained, the piles are beginning to smell. Some sidewalks are impassable. Along with all that, there are debris piles of vegetation. A mobile home community that sits next to the Pinellas trail and Cedar creek is completely ruined. Piles and piles of people's belongings. It's heartbreaking.

 

FEMA pick up begins October 5th.